Electronic resonance with anticorrelated pigment vibrations drives photosynthetic energy transfer outside the adiabatic framework

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1203-1208

  Tiwari, Vivek ^a   Peters, William K ^a   Jonas, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

ADIABATICITY; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT HARVESTING ANTENNA; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; SPECTROSCOPY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATION;

EID: 84872854290     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211157110     Document Type: Article

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